05 October 2015

Our Week Ahead ~ Monday 4 October 2015

This week is ending up being a bit of a buffet. We'll be enjoying left overs from last week with William Pitt and Wilberforce, continuing on with Amy Carmichael as our missionary/Christian study; as well as making a start on reading through The Story of New Zealand as our non-fiction and geography focus, we'll begin reading through Bronte & Austen for literature studies.
We couldn't find a NZ book that we wanted to read for the era of NZ history we are covering this week, so we elected to continue on with our British literature studies instead.

Our copy of this book is still in the post :) It was more economical, and quicker posting, for us to purchase this through fishpond NZ .____________________

·Jay

History & Geography

1: The
Story of New Zealand :

Under the British Flag p.40-47,

Early Governors
& the Maori p.48-56,

New Life in a New Land p.57-67

Mapping:New Zealand

History, Literature, & Book Basket:

1: Book Basket:

Practical
Happiness ~ Schultz

Jane Eyre ~ Bronte wk 1 of 4

Jay said he's willing to have a 'try' at this book, and we'll see how we go :-) . Regardless of what happens with the book, I want to watch a BBC production of Jane Eyre with Jay. (The one with Timothy ?? in it.) So many character and tricky moral issues I'd like to discuss with him in that film.

I tentatively thought of going with an audio option, but as we already have quite a few audios happening in our home at the moment I'm loath to add another one.

Jay won't be using Greenleaf Guide to Early Modern Literature for a few weeks while we study Jane Eyre/Bronte, and focus on Essentials in Writing Jay and I have both enjoyed using this Greenleaf guide! Admittedly we do customise things to suit ourselves ;) and I, especially, have appreciated being able to go through a good cross-section of authors and their works. We have 2 lessons to cover - Fireside, and then Victorian Poets - and then that is another Greenleaf guide satisfactorily completed. ____________________

I just decided to drop Jane Eyre from E's reading this year. It just looks a bit too much for her at this time. We may add it in in a few years. I'm curious to see how Jay gets along with it and if he enjoys it.

@ Allie,I waited to reply until Jay was a week into Jane Eyre. He's actually enjoying reading this - and is appreciating, not only the storyline but Bronte's writing style too.(He's pretty well read in the classics, so I knew the style wouldn't be an issue.)My initial concern was that the protagonist was a pre-Victorian era girl ;-) and he'd quibble at reading further. The rest of the characters in the book are so well developed that he's able to enjoy it as a gothic read, as opposed to a book about an orphaned girl.It's generating some good discussion - especially around character, or lack of, conduct; and how embracing biblically based instruction could change each event happening.There is NO way I'd want Daisy to be reading this book, yet. In a few years yes, right now? no. She has had exposure to a very abridged version of the story, but not the unabridged tale with all it's angst, mental illness, and woe. She's content to read Jane Austen :-)

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